update errors

[philinux]

The output for sudo apt-get purge php5-cli is

And from sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade

Lets make sure you have this package installed as it includes basename.

apt-cache policy coreutils

[Malcy]

That package seems to be there.

coreutils:
Installed: 8.5-1ubuntu6
Candidate: 8.5-1ubuntu6
Version table:
*** 8.5-1ubuntu6 0
500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ oneiric/main amd64 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

[philinux]

That package seems to be there.

Have you been playing with scripts cos something messed in your system.

Try this in a terminal.

basename /usr/bin/sort

It should just return sort as the output.

[Malcy]

No, I haven't been playing with scripts or anything exotic. I did have backports enabled for some reason but it is not now.

Here is the output

The program 'basename' is currently not installed. You can install it by typing:
sudo apt-get install coreutils

I tried sudo apt-get install coreutils but it was no help.

[philinux]

No, I haven't been playing with scripts or anything exotic. I did have backports enabled for some reason but it is not now.

Here is the output

The program 'basename' is currently not installed. You can install it by typing:
sudo apt-get install coreutils

I tried sudo apt-get install coreutils but it was no help.

This is why you are getting errors regarding basename as the system cant find it. You've done something to cause a script redirect or something. So when the system looks for basename it cant find it.

You could try reinstalling coreutils. After that I cant help. Someone else might though.

sudo apt-get install --reinstall coreutils

[Malcy]

That did it, everything looks fine now.

Thank you very much for spending the time sorting this out for me.

[philinux]

That did it, everything looks fine now.

Thank you very much for spending the time sorting this out for me.

Nice one. You can reinstall that php app now.

I did find one other thing to try for this situation.

which basename

should have returned
/usr/bin/basename

I wonder where yours was lol.

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